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Fragmentary Circular Plaque with a Lion-Griffin (modern forgery)


Sasanian
19th century - 20th century (in the style of the 6th-8th century)
20.5 x 15 x 1 cm (8 1/16 x 5 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
silver
BZ.1938.13

Not on view


Permalink: http://museum.doaks.org/objects-1/info/36024

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Bibliography
A. U. Pope, ed., Survey of Persian Art, I (1938), 738, fig. 255.

Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. Iranian Institute, 2nd ed. (New York, 1940), 326.

Ars Orientalis, 2 (1957), 88, no. 11, fig. 3 (Gettens).

Woven Treasures of Persian Art, Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, 1959), no. 151.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), 14, no. 51.

S. Boyd and G. Vikan, Questions of Authenticity Among the Arts of Byzantium (Washington, D.C., 1981), no. 5.

Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology & The Forger's Craft, in Bulletin of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO, 1996), 12, pl. 11.


Exhibition History
New York, Iranian Institute, "Six Thousand Years of Persian Art," April 24, 1940 - June 1940.

Cambridge, Fogg Museum, "A Selection of Ivories, Bronzes, Metalwork and Other Objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 1945.

Los Angeles County Museum, "Woven Treasures of Persian Art," April-May 1959.

Kansas City, MO, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, "Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology & The Forger's Craft," Oct. 11, 1996 through Jan. 5, 1997. Also, Atlanta, GA, Carlos Museum at Emory University, Feb. 8 through May 18, 1997.


Acquisition History
Purchased from K(h)erekin Beshir (dealer), New York, 1938.

Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, 1938-1940.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., November, 1940.


Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023